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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
partner
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business partner (=someone who shares a business with you)
▪ Margie was his wife and also his business partner.
a coalition partner
▪ There were fundamental differences between the two main coalition partners.
a senior partner (=in a law firm etc)
▪ He was a senior partner in a prestigious Canadian law firm.
civil partner
domestic partner
drinking companion/buddy/partner etc
silent partner
sleeping partner
sparring partner
trading partner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.
▪ The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partners ordinance, he said.
▪ Businesses that do not apply equal benefits to employees with domestic partners, they say, unfairly discriminate.
▪ The City states in its briefs that the domestic partners ordinance does not interfere with those statutes.
▪ The cost of the ceremony will be $ 35, which comes on top of a $ 30 domestic partners registration fee.
▪ A law passed by voters in 1994 gave retirement and health benefits to city employees' domestic partners.
▪ At issue is whether domestic partners benefits are covered by the federal statute.
▪ Aftergut argued that domestic partners benefits can be set aside from the federal act.
equal
▪ Teacher and pupil, even primary school pupil, were equal partners in this joint exploration.
▪ I say that what I want is an equal partner.
▪ On the campaign trail, she made it clear she wanted to be an equal partner.
▪ The modern wife is considered more of an equal partner and helpmate than a chattel or a housekeeper.
▪ In some cases all the centres involved may be equal partners.
▪ In fact, psychology and biology have to be equal partners in our analysis of the brain.
▪ It promised to adopt more democratic structures and said it would be an equal partner with other political parties.
junior
▪ The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.
▪ Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners.
▪ This was J.P. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.
▪ But to be an ally of the West is of course to be a junior partner.
▪ The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner.
▪ The resumption has shaken the Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schro der's coalition.
male
▪ There was no effect when only the male partner was a smoker.
▪ The risks, however, are not equal between male and female partners.
▪ In London in 1994 9,800 women were attacked by their male partners, compared to 887 men.
▪ Males, in particular, are quickly inhibited from approaching a female if she is already interacting with a male partner.
▪ One of the key differences between the two relates to the impact of a male partner in the household.
▪ Females benefit from having several male partners because they all help to rear her young.
▪ Women's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children.
new
▪ A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices.
▪ Evidently the new strategic partners are permitted offensive missiles for mutual annihilation but not defenses against an accidental launch.
▪ Yet his new partner Mahela Jayawardene nearly perished when he mis-timed a drive off Giles.
▪ Finding new partners reassures them that they're still attractive and desirable.
▪ But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev, whom she wed in 1975.
▪ The company has said it is seeking new partners to continue operations.
▪ You may wonder why Barclays seems happy to let its new partner deplore the practices of old-style banking.
other
▪ However, combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders' Party, the other government coalition partner.
▪ The recommendation would help married or unmarried partners whose homes are held in the other partner's name.
▪ On the other hand, partners can be very supportive in labour, especially if they've attended classes.
▪ Business deals would not be made where people did not know the other partner to the contract.
▪ I soon learned to dance, beginning with other girls as partners.
▪ Hence autonomy is lost and some form of agreement with the other partners is necessary in order to make worthwhile business decisions.
▪ Although they were not lovers they stayed together, sought no other partners.
▪ Have your partner sit down on the mat, extending one leg and flexing the other.
potential
▪ This then results in a new set of relationships with the family of the potential partner.
▪ At no point throughout his coalition negotiations did Barak consider the Arab parties as potential partners.
▪ If we were hermaphrodites, everybody would be a potential partner.
▪ Parents are consumers; but they are also potential partners with teachers.
▪ Only if the potential partner appears credible will the company earn a first meeting with eBay.
▪ Talks are taking place between leaders of the consortium and potential business partners.
▪ There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
senior
▪ Standing by one of the teak-veneered bookshelves was Douglas Ferguson, the senior tax partner.
▪ The senior partners were forced to go hat in hand to Wall Street rival Shearson, which bought them out.
▪ A handful of non-OPP senior partners agreed to lead the work of those teams.
▪ Though Gooch was the senior partner in length of stay, he let Smith and Lamb play the major parts.
▪ And the guerrilla strategy for influencing senior partners never got off the ground.
▪ The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.
▪ In this era of lawyer-bashing, he hardly fits the stereotype of the senior partner in a big, big firm.
trading
▪ Kalchu's trading partner, his i, from Wangri stayed in the house for several days.
▪ Aquitaine, with her valuable wine trade, was a major trading partner.
■ NOUN
business
▪ They will go down a storm with my business partners.
▪ They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.
▪ Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners, suppliers or customers.
▪ As part of the class, they go on company tours and job shadows organized by the business partners.
▪ Through talking to people running nurseries, she met Madeline Watson, now her business partner.
▪ Some of the most enthusiastic business partners have come from high-tech industries.
▪ Guy had been laughing about her, with his business partner?
▪ But what happens when one of the business partners is himself an architect, or has trained as one?
coalition
▪ Labour currently exists as government by grace of two coalition partners.
▪ Netanyahu was able to bring his coalition partners into line to support the Hebron agreement.
▪ However, combined results disguised a collapse of support for the Independent Smallholders' Party, the other government coalition partner.
▪ He and his Revolutionary Council expressed supreme confidence in their ability to stand up to the United States and its coalition partners.
▪ The Labour Party's main coalition partner, the leftist Meretz, supported the move.
▪ Mr Mori's two coalition partners also suffered a setback.
▪ New Aspiration, a prospective coalition partner, was already under public pressure against the inclusion of tainted politicians in the line-up.
▪ The coalition partners predict further elections in six to eight months, and the energy shortage threatens to hamper their reform plans.
marriage
▪ While first-cousins are often favoured as marriage partners, a distinction is very often made between parallel and cross-cousins.
▪ Both marriage partners must be willing.
▪ Then comes the greatest loss of all: that of their marriage partner.
▪ When seeking a marriage partner, intelligence is important to both sexes.
▪ In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.
▪ A marriage partner can be a true soul-friend in this sense.
▪ First, it may be difficult for them to relinquish the closeness and identification with their twin in favour of a marriage partner.
▪ Obviously this typology has immense implications for educational methods, for communication generally, and for choice of marriage partner.
■ VERB
become
▪ As two opposite kinds of people, when they became partners, their very differences provided the right balance for success.
▪ The latter in the mid-1830s became a partner of his father.
▪ The concern said C.. Scott Hartz, 49 years old, becomes managing partner for the combined practice.
▪ It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York.
▪ The two women become reluctant partners and roommates.
▪ Four of his sons became partners in the Smith banks.
▪ The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner.
find
▪ It's a good idea to find yourself a partner and practise all these close-in moves.
▪ I am going to play with different players to see if I can find a new partner.
▪ Charlie had not yet been found a ward partner and was still working in the Hall.
▪ Many gay men rejected these connections and found long-term partners, often away from the hubbub of the emerging gay fast lane.
▪ In addition members of the class usually find marriage partners from the same class.
▪ Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married.
▪ Should a marriage partner be embarrassed or ashamed because he/she finds delight in his/her partner?
▪ If the answer is yes, find another partner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
willing helper/volunteer/partner etc
▪ Any Texas prisoner who finds a willing partner on the outside is allowed to be married.
▪ Find yourself a willing partner and sit facing each other.
▪ For example, a teacher who says that she thinks some of the dolls need bathing will soon have some willing helpers.
▪ I belong to several organisations, some are small and local who need willing helpers and supporters.
▪ Non-horsy spouses and relatives can be trained for this role, but they must be willing helpers!
▪ There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
▪ Why should he bother, when he had a willing partner waiting back in his rooms?
▪ You take one pair of ends, your willing helper takes the other, and off you go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are we allowed to bring our partners to the staff party?
▪ Have you got a partner for the dance on Saturday?
▪ Have you met my partner, Ray?
▪ Japan is a major trading partner of the US.
▪ Let's have a game of cards -- you and Frank can be partners.
▪ Manson and I were business partners, but not friends.
▪ People who have many sexual partners are more at risk from AIDS.
▪ Previously, Ellsworth was a partner at the accounting firm of Deloitte Touche.
▪ Running with a partner can keep your work-out from being boring.
▪ Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the benefits awarded to heterosexual married couples.
▪ The firm was so successful that she took on a partner.
▪ The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
▪ The sale of the firm could make each of the senior partners into millionaires.
▪ The survey found that only about one of every four men had had ten or more sexual partners over their lifetime.
▪ Try not to step on your partner's toes.
▪ We called a meeting with Russco, our partners in the construction project.
▪ When I saw her again, she was dancing with a different partner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At this point Youhana had only 37, but he found an adhesive partner in Saqlain.
▪ Honesty is vital - honesty with yourself about your feelings and honesty with your partner.
▪ Its main strategic partner is Cisco Systems.
▪ Joint sessions with the partner or close relatives are often the best means of dealing with these problems.
▪ Your partner has to guess the name of the product.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ Both McDougals and their business partner, former Arkansas Gov.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At the American Ballet Theater, Cynthia Gregory was partnered by Fernando Bujones.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Partner

Partner \Part"ner\ (p[aum]rt"n[~e]r), n. [For parcener, influenced by part.]

  1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. ``Partner of his fortune.'' --Shak. Hence:

    1. A husband or a wife.

    2. Either one of a couple who dance together.

    3. One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.

      My other self, the partner of my life.
      --Milton.

  2. (Law) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.

  3. pl. (Naut.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.

    Dormant partner, or Silent partner. See under Dormant, a.

    Syn: Associate; colleague; coadjutor; confederate; partaker; participator; companion; comrade; mate.

Partner

Partner \Part"ner\, v. t. To associate, to join. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
partner

c.1300, altered from parcener (late 13c.), from Old French parçonier "partner, associate; joint owner, joint heir," from parçon "partition, division. portion, share, lot," from Latin partitionem (nominative partitio) "a sharing, partition, division, distribution" (see partition (n.)). Form in English influenced by part (n.). The word also may represent Old French part tenour "part holder."

partner

1610s, transitive, "to make a partner," from partner (n.). Intransitive sense from 1961. Related: Partnered; partnering.

Wiktionary
partner

n. 1 Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest. 2 # A member of a business or law partnership 3 # A spouse or sexual partner 4 # Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance. 5 (context nautical English) One of the pieces of wood comprise the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass. 6 (context Jamaica English) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period. vb. 1 to make or be a partner 2 to work or perform as a partner

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WordNet
partner

  1. v. provide with a partner

  2. act as a partner; "Astaire partnered Rogers"

partner

  1. n. a person's partner in marriage [syn: spouse, married person, mate, better half]

  2. an associate who works with others toward a common goal; "partners in crime" [syn: collaborator, cooperator, pardner]

  3. a person who is a member of a partnership

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Wikipedia
Partner

Partner or The Partner may refer to:

Partner (2007 film)

Partner is a 2007 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan. The film stars Govinda and Salman Khan, with Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta. The film was declared a blockbuster by Box Office India and one of the highest grossers for Salman Khan; the film was also Govinda's comeback.

Partner (horse)

Partner (also known as Croft's Partner or Old Partner) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He won six of his seven races before being retired to stud where he was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland four times, and continued the Byerley Turk sire-line.

Partner (business rank)

A partner in a law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm, or financial firm is a highly ranked position, traditionally indicating co-ownership of a partnership in which the partners were entitled to a share of the profits as " equity partners." The title can also be used in corporate entities where equity is held by shareholders.

Partner (2008 film)

Partner ( "Force") ( 2008) is a Bengali film Directed by Shankar Ray.This film is more or less same as more than four decades ago in 1964 a film named “ Jiban Kahini based on a story by Shaktipada Rajguru was a smashing hit. The main star cast of that film were Bikash Roy, Anup Kumar and Sandhya Roy. The director of that film was Rajen Tarafdar.

Partner (1968 film)

Partner is a 1968 Italian drama film by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Based on the novel The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it entered the 29th Venice Film Festival and the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section at the 22nd Cannes Film Festival.

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Usage examples of "partner".

Steve Goddard, an Andersen partner, brought along a number of other accountants, including a young graduate from Texas AM named David Duncan, who was working on the Cactus deals.

One at a time, the partners ranked their clients based on the risk in their accounting practices.

And, for the next century, Tacitus and I and our new partners accreted, and accreted, and accreted.

I want to take a moment here to respond to the other common concern voiced by my female patients over the years: Second only to cleanliness, many women are resistant to the thought of penetrating their partners due to an odd societal stigma that equates anal stimulation with homosexuality and, hence, emasculation.

Garner, for his part, was not anticipating that he would be taking on the political and physical reconstruction of Iraq, and he was hoping to find a partner among the Iraqis.

She had never really found a partner that inspired a lot of interest in it for her, but the company required employees to share sexual favors, not necessarily as recreation, but to cut down on emotional stress and she participated often enough to keep her name off of the antisocial list.

Again she gave me the appreciation and acceptance I needed to feel like a successful partner, even when she was tired and exhausted.

When she is not feeling as good about herself, she is unable to be as accepting and appreciative of her partner.

But the syndicate members were bankers just like 518 KEN FOLLETT the Pilasters, and in their hearts they thought There but for the grace of God go L Besides, the cooperation of the partners was helpful in selling off the assets, and it was worth a small payment to retain their goodwill.

For the first time Julian Marquet will partner a ballerina other than his wife in a major television production of Giselle.

A male dancer who let a ballerina fall would soon never have a partner to lift.

The Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Antilles each provided sophisticated banking services catering to the harried businessman in need of a secure hiding place for funds spirited from under the blind eyes of a trusting partner or the vengeful maw of a wronged spouse.

She wanted to talk with Barth first and get his reactions before his partner in crime had a chance to work on him.

We sucked the semen into a turkey baster and my partner inseminated me.

So he is going to be articled to the Roxham lawyers, Foster and Son, or rather Foster and Bellamy, for young Bellamy, who is a lawyer by profession, came here this morning, not to speak about you, but on a message from the firm to say that he is now a junior partner, and that they will be very happy to take George as an articled clerk.